Grosvenor Prints

Apti Bassa Late governor of Buda who havnig defended the place to the last Extremity was killd upon ye Place
M. Vander Gucht. Scul. [c.1687].
Rare engraving, platemark 240 x 180mm (9½ x 7"). Small margins.
Abdi Pasha (1616-86), Albanian Abdurrahman who was the last Turkish Governor of Buda (now part of Budapest, Hungary). In 1684, during the Great Turkish War, an army of the Holy Roman Empire led by Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, took the city and Abdi Pasha died while heroically defending the city with a tiny army. A memorial to him at Buda Castle describes him as a 'noble enemy and a hero'. An illustration from 'The Turkish History from the Original of that Nation...' 1687 by Sir Paul Rycaut.
[Ref: 41462] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Les Aigles Brûlés. Dédié aux Braves de la Patrie. Les Braves d e la Vieille-Garde...
A Paris chez Martinet Libraire, Rue du Coq St. Honoré, No.13. [n.d., c.1815.]
Etching with aquatint. Sheet 270 x 375mm (10½ x 14¾"). Ink stamp 'Napoleons Premiere epreuve', with imperial eagle. Trimmed to platemark on three sides.
After Napoleon's abdication in 1814, the Old Guard of his army burn their battle flags and eagles and drink the ashes mixed with wine.
[Ref: 55812] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Abdolominus Wie spiehlt nicht offt das Gluck [...]
J.E. Nilson inv et del. B.S. Setletsky sc. [lower right of image]
Joh. George Hertel, excud. A.V. 1
Etching, sheet 340 x 215mm (13½ x 8½"). Trimmed inside platemark.
This scene probably relates to the play 'Abdolominus' by French playwright Gabriel-Francois Le Jay (1657-1734). In this play, Alexander the Great appoints his distant relative Abdolomines king of Sidon. Abdolomines preferred to live a simple life, and here he is offered the crown while he dwells in a splendid natural setting. With rococo border and verses in German and Latin below. From a set of decorative prints etched from designs by Johann Esaias Nilson (1721-88), 'the German Watteau'. Nilson was part of a family of artists and established himself as the leading Augsburg artist of his day, whose influence extended across publishing, art academies, a role as court painter, and the decorative arts (especially ceramics).
[Ref: 33168] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Woman abducted by a god?]
EC [ms below image]
[c.1680]
Fine mezzotint, scarce, platemark 240 x 190mm (9½ x 7½"). Glued to backing sheet.
[Ref: 46002] £280.00 (£336.00 incl.VAT)

[Bibliotheque Publique D'Abd'ul Hamid.] [Title in pencil below image.]
C.N. Cochin Fils direx. D. Née Sculp. 1787.
1787.
Engraving, proof impression before titles. Platemark: 280 x 410mm (11 x 16"). Creases in lower left corner.
An interior view of the public library of Abdul Hamid I or Abd Al-Hamid I (1725 - 1789), the 27th Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, reigning over the Ottoman Empire from 1774 to 1789. After French engraver, designer, writer, and art critic Charles-Nicolas Cochin (1715 - 1790).
[Ref: 39499] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Adam Bearing the Murdered Body of Abel_and sighing under the sad burthen slowly moved towards his dwelling. Gessner's Death of Abel, Book the IV. Plate the 1.st [&] The Departure of Cain. They left their cottage Mahala with weeping eyes beheld the dwellings of her parents and of Mirza. Gessner’s Death of Abel. Book V.
H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1799. James Godby sculpsit. [&] H. Singleton pinxit. John Murphy excudit 1800. James Godby sculpsit.
London: Published Jan.y 7. 1799, by John Murphy, North-side Paddington Green. [&] London: Published Jan.y 2. 1800, by John Murphy. No.19 Howland Street Fitzroy Square.
A pair of stipples. Each 596 x 515mm (23½ x 20¼"), with large margins. First of pair cut into platemark along both side edges, some foxing to edges, but images excellent.
Adam and Eve, wearing animal skins, Adam carrying the dead body of his son Abel over his shoulder, approaching across a landscape, with Eve walking behind him, covering her face in her hands, mourning; [&] Cain, wearing animal skins, one hand to his head in despair, holding a son by the other hand, his wife beside him carrying a child and looking behind her sadly at the home they have left, two other children walking just ahead of them, pointing onward.
Ex: Oettingen-Wallerstein collection.
[Ref: 28444] £300.00 view all images for this item

Abelard.
D. Gardner Pinx.t. Tho.s Watson fecit.
London Publish'd May 28th 1782 by Tho.s Watson, 33 Strand.
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark, 260 x 195mm (10¼ x 7¾"). Small margins.
Imaginary portrait of medieval philosopher Pierre Abelard (1079-1142). This print was published as a pair with an image of Héloïse d'Argenteuil, his lover with whom he corresponded after they were separated (hence the paper and quill). Alexander Popes' poem about the couple ensured their popularity as a subject for artists in the 18th century.
Whitman 27.
[Ref: 60124] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

[John Abercrombie]
[n.d., c.1800.]
Etching. Sheet 140 x 90mm (5½ x 3½"). Trimmed to engraved border, laid on album paper.
Full-length portrait of John Abercrombie (1726–1806), Scottish horticulturist, the new frontispiece for the 1800 edition of his 'Every Man His Own Gardener'.
[Ref: 57200] £120.00 (£144.00 incl.VAT)

The Hon.ble Alexander Abercromby, One of the Senators of the College of Justice, and one of the Lords Commissioners of Judiciary for Scotland. From a picture in the Possession of Lord Craig to whom this Plate, is respectfully dedicated by his Lordship's Most Ob.t Serv.t Alexander Lawrie.
Engraved by G. Dawe [after Sir Henry Raeburn].
Published Oct.r 22. 1800 by Alex.r Lawrie, Bookseller, Edinburg.
Fine mezzotint. 510 x 355mm (20 x 14"), with large margins.
Alexander Abercromby (1745-1795), Lord Abercromby, younger brother of lieutenant-general Sir Ralph Abercromby. The original portrait seems to date from 1792, when Abercromby was made one of the Lords Commissioners of Justiciary; this mezzotint was not published until five years after his death.
[Ref: 51573] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Landing of Her Majesty Queen Victoria in Aberdeen.
[Anon., c.1848]
Rare lithograph, sheet 180 x 275mm (7 x 10¾"). Rare.
Queen Victoria and family disembarking at Aberdeen, probably for their first visit to the city in September 1848. A huge crowd awaits the royal arrival. Queen Victoria's visit followed soon after she purchased the nearby castle of Balmoral, sight unseen. After Victoria had it rebuilt between 1853 and 1855. It has continued to be a popular residence with the monarchy ever since.
[Ref: 41641] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View of Old Aberdeen, including Kings College and the Cathedral. Under the Patronage of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales. To His Grace Alexander Duke of Gordon, Chancellor, the Rt: Hon:ble Sylvester Lord Glenbervie, Rector Roderick Macleod, D.D. Principal, and the Professors of the University and Kings College of Aberdeen. This View of the Seat of that Ancient Seminary, in respectfully Inscribed by their most obedient humble Servant. John Ewen.
Painted by A. Nasmyth from a drawing by R. Seaton. Engraved by F.C. Lewis.
Pub.d by J. Ewen, Aberdeen 1. March. 1808.
Coloured aquatint. 476 x 621mm. 18¾ x 24½". Laid. Trimmed to the plate along left and lower edge. Repairs.
View of Aberdeen, Kings College and the Cathedral.
[Ref: 19657] £420.00

The University of Aberdeen Marischal College [in pencil lower left].
Wilfred C. Appleby [etched in plate lower left, signed in pencil lower right.]
[n.c., c.1930.]
Etching, 315 x 290mm. 12½ x 11½". Foxing.
Marischal College was an independent university before it was merged with King's College, Aberdeen, in 1860. It is the seconed largest granite building in the world. By Wilfred Crawford Appleby b.1889.
[Ref: 9836] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Banff.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the town of Banff, Aberdeenshire, from a hillside. Cattle can be seen in the foreground, with figures in a street lined by walls in the middle ground. A large house on an estate sits behind, overlooking the bay, with buildings on the coast and hillside in the background, and a church on the hilltop in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36156] £190.00 (£228.00 incl.VAT)

Duff-house, Banff.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of Duff House, Banff, a country house set in an open field, with a group of figures harvesting crops in the foreground to the right. Trees line the banks of a river below, with buildings on the hillside to the left and the sea beyond. Duff House, designed by Scottish architect William Adam (1689-1748), and was commissioned by William Duff, Lord Braco, later 1st Earl Fife, as a family home to replace a smaller more modest residence nearby, on the present site of Airlie Gardens in Banff. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36157] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Kinnaird Head, Aberdeenshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A coastal view at Kinnaird Head in stormy weather. Figures are seen on a rock in the foreground looking down at a mast among splashing waves. A lighthouse in a tower with an adjacent building are on the hilltop in the distance. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36155] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman, & Co. Paternoster Row, & W. Daniell, 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London. July, 1, 1822.
Aquatint with fine original hand colour. 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Mint, with large margins, uncut.
A view of the fishing port at Peterhead, with rowing boats on the beach in the foreground, and the town on the bank of the bay behind. A large church is on a plateau in the middle ground. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36172] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

John Abernethy, Lecturer on Surgery at St. Bartholomews Hospital, &c.&c.&c.
Painted by Mr. C.W. Pegler. Engraved by C. Turner, A.R.A. Engraver in Ordinary to His Majesty.
[London: C. Turner, 1828.]
Mezzotint, image 360 x 280mm. 14¼ x 11". Trimmed within plate. Chipped extremities, with closed tears, one into plate lower right.
John Abernethy (1764 - 1831), surgeon and teacher. In the late 1780s he began to lecture on anatomy at his house in Bartholomew Close, and speedily attracted a large class, the numbers of which were swollen when Dr. Marshall, the most popular anatomical teacher in the city, ceased to lecture. Abernethy's success was one of the causes which induced the governors of St. Bartholomew's to build a lecture theatre, where in 1791 he began to lecture on anatomy, physiology, and surgery, and thus became the founder of the medical school attached to that ancient hospital. About this time he was himself a diligent attendant at the lectures of John Hunter, with whom he had also private conferences on scientific matters, and whose influence greatly determined the bent of his mind. In 1796 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Society. In 1814 he was appointed to lecture on anatomy and physiology at the College of Surgeons (there was no regular professorship), and held the office till 1817. His lectures were mainly devoted to explaining the Hunterian museum, then lodged in the college, and to expounding the views of John Hunter, of whose theory of life Abernethy constituted himself an ardent champion. After Charles William Pegler (1803 - 1832).
Whitman: 2, II. NPG: D7147.
[Ref: 12787] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

View near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London Nov.r 1. 1814.
Coloured aquatint. Plate 228 x 298mm. 9 x 11¾".
The ruins of a ship in Cardiganshire, Wales. People stand around and admire the wrecked hull on the shore line; three anchors and a few yards from the shipwreck. From William Daniell's First Volume of "Voyage around Great Britain".
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 18079] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

View near Aberystwith, Cardiganshire.
Drawn & Engraved by Will.m Daniell.
Published by Mess.rs Longman & Co. Paternoster Row & W. Daniell 9 Cleveland St. Fitzroy Square, London Nov.r 1. 1814.
Hand coloured aquatint with very large margins, fine. On watermarked paper, 'J. Whatman. 1813'. Platemark: 230 x 300mm (9 x 12"). Uncut.
The ruins of a ship in Cardiganshire, Wales. People stand around and admire the wrecked hull on the shore line; three anchors and a few yards from the shipwreck. From William Daniell's 'A Voyage Round Great Britain', a series of 308 aquatints published in eight volumes between 1814-1825, described by R.V. Tooley as 'the most important colour plate book on British Topography'.
Abbey: Scenery, 16; Tooley: Books with Coloured Plates 177.
[Ref: 36431] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Abingdon Old Gaol] View of the New County Prison, at Abingdon, Berks.
Drawn by W. Waite. Engraved by H. Meyer.
[n.d., c.1810.]
Rare aquatint. 420 x 485mm (16½ x 19"). Narrow bottom margin, small tear entering inscription area.
A view of Abingdon Old Gaol, probably published before the prison opened in 1812. Taken from the banks of the Thames (with an angler), it also shows Abingdon Bridge. On the opposite side is a wharf, with a barge, scale beam and crane. The gaol was built by Daniel Harris (c. 1761-1840), the Surveyor and Gaoler of Oxford Prison, and Sir Jeffry Wyatville RA (1766-1840), architect who worked on alterations for both Chatsworth House and Windsor Castle. It was largely superseded by the larger prison at Reading (1844) and closed in 1868. After being used as a grain store, slum dwellings and a leisure centre, it has now been converted into flats.
[Ref: 56769] £420.00

Mill House, Abinger. [pencil.]
Walter G. Price. [pencil signature.]
[n.d., c.1920.]
Etching, signed by the artist. 85 x 130mm, 3¼ x 5".
Abinger, near Dorking, Surrey. Price was born in Birmingham, His etchings were exhibited between 1910-1933, including one at the R.A.
[Ref: 11661] £60.00 (£72.00 incl.VAT)

Roxalana. Mrs. Abbington in that Character, in the Sultan.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, printed in colours. 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Some mount burn. Unexamined out of frame.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'. Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, iii of iii. See 10597 & 10601.
[Ref: 13807] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

[Roxalana.]
[Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Sherwin.]
[London: J. Thane, 1791.]
Stipple and etching, proof before all letters, sheet 270 x 220mm. 10½ x 8¾". Trimmed to plate.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character, appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, I of III; for printed colour impression see ref. 13807
[Ref: 10601] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

[Mrs Abington.]
[n.d., c.1795.]
Etching, sheet 182 x 135mm. Trimmed inside plate.
A rare and charming portrait of Frances Abington (1737 - 1815), famous comic actress. Etched by James Bretherton (1750 - 1799; fl.), dealer and publisher in London. Brother of Charles Bretherton, he is particularly associated with Henry William Bunbury, many of whose works he engraved and published. His stock of plates was auctioned in 1799. From the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Ex: Collection of Alec Clunes.
[Ref: 7834] £220.00 (£264.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs Abington
Sr. Jos. Reynolds Pinx J. Wilson fec
[n.d., c.1770]
Mezzotint, platemark 150 x 115mm (6 x 4½").
Frances Abington (1737-1815), actress. Born in lowly circumstances, Abington grew up in the slums around Drury Lane, and sold flowers and sang in Covent Garden as a girl. Along with other jobs she did when young (kitchenmaid, milliner's assistant), various accounts of her life hint at prostitution during her early years. After making a start as an actress in London her first professional success came while working in Dublin, rejoining Garrick's Drury Lane company where she established herself as one of the leading comedy actresses of her generation. She was also the mistress of at least two prominent figures. Engraving after the several portrait 'Mrs Abington as the Comic Muse' by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1764-8, hair and dress repainted 1772-3) now in Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire. This was one of several portraits that Reynolds painted of Abington- he was an admirer and purchased twelve tickets for her benefit performance in 1772. Reynolds' portrait was a companion to his portrait of Sarah Siddons as 'the Tragic Muse'.
CS: 2. Not in Hamilton.
[Ref: 42094] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Roxalana.
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
Stipple and etching, proof, title in open letters; 285 x 210mm (11¼ x 8¼"). Large margins.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character in Isaac Bickerstaffe's 'The Sultan'; appearing from behind a curtain which she pushes aside with her left hand. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, II of III. See Reg: 10601 for 1st state; & 10597 for 3rd state; for printed colour impression see ref. 13807 Harvard p.7: 45
[Ref: 16975] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Roxalana. Mrs. Abbington in that Character, in the Sultan. Sultan (alone) "She's not handsome, that is, what is call'd a beauty; get her little nose" "cock'd in the air, her laughing eyes, & the play of her features, have an". "effect altogether:_Who is it that lifts the curtain there?" Roxalana __ "Tis I". __
Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engraved by J.K. Shirwin.
London, Publish'd Feby. 1. 1791, by J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market.
A fine stipple and etching. Plate 285 x 210mm. 11¼ x 8¼". Foxing.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) in character as Roxalana, an English slave in Isaac Bickstaffe's play 'The Sultan; or A Peep into the Seraglio' She is, as a contemporary newspaper reported, 'in the act of drawing the Curtain when she surprises the sultan in his retirement'. Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. After Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723 - 1792).
Hamilton: pg.77, iii of iii. See 13807 for printed colour version.
[Ref: 21009] £180.00 (£216.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Abington as the Comic Muse.
P. Wray sculpt.
[British, n.d., c.1790s.]
Copper engraving with some stippling, 110 x 175mm. 4¼ x 7". Pin hole to image; stitching holes to upper margin. One foxmark below title.
The famous comic actress Frances Abington (1737 - 1815) as Thalia, in classical dress with long billowing scarf, head directed and looking to left, where she is about to crown a bust of Shakespeare, on a pedestal, with laurel. She holds up a comic mask in her left hand, behind to left, a tree, pipes tied to a branch; in oval. Mrs Abington was rumoured to have spent her teenage years working as a prostitute. For the Court, City & Country Magazine. The image is extracted and reversed from the stipple by Bartolozzi after Richard Cosway (1742 - 1821).
[Ref: 24050] £65.00 (£78.00 incl.VAT)

Mrs. Abington.
Engrav'd for the Universal Magazine. T. Cook del et sculp.
Publish'd as ye. Act directs, April 1st. 1783, by S. A. Cumberlege Paternoster Row.
Engraving. Platemark: 165 x 110mm (6¾ x 4¼"). Large margins on 3 sides. Cut on left.
A head and shoulders portrait of the famous comic actress, Frances Abington (1737 - 1815), who was as famed as much for her sense of fashion as she was for her acting.
[Ref: 35647] £45.00 (£54.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of the Temple of Aboo Simbel. Nov.r 9th, 1836. Nubia.
David Roberts. R.A.
London, Published F. G. Moon, 20 Threadneedle Street, Aug.t 1st, 1846.
Tinted lithograph. Printed area 350 x 495mm (13¾ x 19½").
Abu Simbel, one of Egypt's top tourist attractions, built by Ramesses II in the 13th century BC. This view is of the main hypostyle hall, showing the eight statues of Ramesses dressed as Osiris, half-buried in sand. In 1968 the whole complex was moved to an artificial hill to raise it above the water of the artifical lake created by the Aswan Dam. Published in the monumental folio edition of 'Egypt & Nubia: from drawings made on the spot' by David Roberts (1796 - 1864), lithographed by Louis Haghe. This example comes from the library of Sir Richard Hungerford Pollen (1815-81), 3rd Baronet of Redenham, an amateur artist listed as a subscriber to this work. However this is not a hand-coloured subscription plate but is still an early printing, one issued in wrappered parts prior to the bound First Edition.
Abbey Travel 272.
[Ref: 40746] £1,100.00

Aboriginal Sepulchre.
Maria Read. [signed in image.]
1868.
Watercolour. Sheet: 250 x 180mm (9¾ x 7"). Laid on card. Foxing.
An amateur watercolour by Maria Read after a chromolithograph by Samuel Thomas Gill (1818-1880) titled 'Native Sepulchre' from his series of twenty four studies of Australian life titled 'The Australian Sketchbook' 1865. The image illustrates the aboriginal burial practice of lying the deceased on an elevated platform draped in leaves, benath the platform several wild dogs gather.
[Ref: 37165] £260.00 (£312.00 incl.VAT)

Habitans du port du Roi Georges. (N.elle Hollande) Pl.24.
de Sainson pinx.t. Boulanger lith.
Tastu, Editeur. Lith. A Bès. [n.d. c.1833.]
Coloured lithograph. Sheet 362 x 547mm. 14¼ x 21½". Large margins; mount burning.
Aborigines of King George Sound, Western Australia, gathered round a barbeque roasting lizard. A study was carried out involving overnight stays of Aborigines on board the Astrolabe as well as reciprocal visits ashore by members of the French contingent. This particular lithograph helps to document the time d'Urville's expedition spent at King George Sound, Western Australia between 7 and 25 October, 1826. Pl. no. 24 of: "Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe. Atlas historique"; the account of Jules Dumont D'Urville's important expedition to the South Seas between 1826 and 1829.
In the National Library of Australia.
[Ref: 26179] £230.00 (£276.00 incl.VAT)

Nuovolandesi. Convenzione coi selvaggi.
[Venice: Giuseppe Antonelli, 1838-42.]
Two images from one plate, lithographs, sheet 298 x 175mm (11¾ x 7").
Rare lithographs of Australian Aborigines and their contact with Europeans. The images were copied from Nicolas Petit's 'Voyage de Decouvertes aux Terres Australes', and published in Antonelli's four-volume 'Galleria universale di tutti i popoli del mondo'.
[Ref: 7764] £80.00 (£96.00 incl.VAT)

Naturel de la nouvelle Hollande.
N. Maurin del. Lith. Kaeppelin et Cie. d'apres le croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 250 x 165mm. 9¾ x 6½".
An aboriginal Australian holding aloft the severed head of an enemy. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11058] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Duel. (Nouvelle-Galles-du-Sud.)
N. Maurin del. Lith. Kaeppelin et Cie. d'apres le croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph, sheet 165 x 245mm. 6½ x 9¾".
Two aboriginal Australians fighting, New South Wales. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855). A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 11056] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Sauvage montant sur un arbre. (Nouvelle hollande.)
N. Maurin del. Lith:Kaeppelin et Cie. d'apres le Croquis de J. Arago.
[Paris, c.1839.]
Lithograph. Sheet: 145 x 225mm, (5¾ x 9").
A European artist-traveller, his portfolio under his arm, watches an aboriginal Australian climb a tree to cut down a branch with his axe. Plate to 'Souvenirs d'un aveugle (blind man)' by Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790 - 1855), who is probably the European figure depicted. A French writer, artist and explorer, Arago joined Louis de Freycinet on his 1817 voyage around the world aboard the ship Uranie, which inspired his witty 'Voyage autour du monde'. Although he lost his sight in 1837, he went on travelling and writing for the theatre.
[Ref: 39821] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

Une Femme de la Terre de Van-Diemen.
Benard direxit.
[n.d., c.1773.]
Engraving. Plate: 245 x 180mm Small margins
A portrait of a woman from Tasmania carrying a baby on her back after a drawing by John Webber. An illustration from the French edition of Cook's Third Voyage 'Relation des voyages entrepris par ordre de sa Majesté Britannique actuellement régnante pour faire des découvertes dans l'hémisphère méridional' 1773.
[Ref: 50918] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

An exact Portrait of A Savage of Botany Bay.
J. Ihle Del.t. J. Chapman Sculp.t.
Published as the Act directs, Feb.y 1 1795.
Coloured engraving. 185 x 120mm (7¼ x 4¾"). Creasing and surface soiling. Small margins.
Drawn by Johann Ihle for Ebenezer Sibly's five-volume ''Universal System of Natural History'', 1794-6.
[Ref: 61454] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of the House of the Cachef at Aboubakir.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1780.]
Rare aquatint. 171 x 248mm (6¾ x 9¾"). Creasing.
Inside the house of the District Administrator in Egypt; two British men seated with two Egyptians drinking tea. Frome "History of the Arabs Modern Part of An Universal History, from the Earliest to the Present Time".
[Ref: 23233] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Interior of the House of the Cachef at Aboubakir.
W. Read Sculp.t.
[n.d. c.1811.]
Aquatint, 1811 watermark. Sheet: 220 x 280mm (8¾ x 11''). Folds as normal
Inside the house of the District Administrator in Egypt; two British men seated with two Egyptians drinking tea. From "History of the Arabs - Modern Part of An Universal History, from the Earliest to the Present Time".
Abbey: Not in.
[Ref: 49289] £85.00 (£102.00 incl.VAT)

[The Landing of the British Troops in Egypt on the 8th of March 1801.]
Painted by P.I. de Loutherbourg R.A. Etched by L Schiavonetti V.A.
London Pub.d 1803 by Anth.y Cardon No 31 Clipstone Street Fitzroy Square.
Stipple, scratched-letter working proof, framed. 620 x 820mm, 24½ x 32¼". Slight spotting. Unexamined out of frame.
The second Battle of Aboukir Bay, in which a British army of 5,000 led by General Ralph Abercromby landed along the beach to dislodge an entrenched French detachment of 2,000 under General Louis Friant. They did so, but not before 1,100 British troops were lost. The finished print was published in 1804, with a dedication to the officers involved and a remarque of the trophies of war. From 'de Loutherbourg's Campaigns in Egypt and Italy'.
Government Art Collection: 1533. Ogilby 568: 1. See 60056 for keyplate.
[Ref: 21581] £490.00

Landing of the British Army under Sir Ralph Abercrombie in Egypt
J. Atkinson del.
London 1st July 1817. Printed at R. Ackermann's Lithographic Press.
Lithograph, scarce; sheet 270 x 375mm (10¼ x 14¾"). Nicks to edges. Crease.
The debarkation of the British troops at Abu Qir in Egypt, in 1801 during the Napoleonic Wars. Number 11 of a series of military lithographs by John Augustus Atkinson (1774-1830).
Ex: Collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 31863] £140.00 (£168.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham casting out Hagar and Ishmael.]
[Thomas Worlidge after Rembrandt.]
[n.d., c.1750.]
Etching. Plate: 125 x 95mm (5 x 3¾"). Small margins
A biblical scene showing Abraham casting Hagar and Ishmael out of his hat while Isaac and Sarah watch behind him. After Rembrandt's 1637 etching.
[Ref: 47377] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

Prédiction des Anges a Abraham. Gravée d'après le Tableau original d'Alexandre Veronese qui est dans les apartements de Monseigneur le Duc d'Orleans au Palais Royal.
Alexandre Veronese pinx. / Glairon Mondet Sculp
A Paris chez Beauvarlet graveur du Roy; Rue du Petit Bourbon attenant la Foire St. Germain [c.1790]
Engraving, platemark 320 x 400mm (12½ x 15¾"). Very large margins, uncut. Crease in centre.
Abraham standing before the three angels (Genesis 18:2). Engraved after a painting attributed to Veronese artist Alessandro Turchi (1578-1649).
[Ref: 38469] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac.]
T Worlidge 1758
Etching. Plate: 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"), with large margins. Dusty.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt', a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
W.36.
[Ref: 49743] £130.00 (£156.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac]
T Worlidge 1758.
Etching, platemark 190 x 150mm (7¾ x 6"). Trimmed inside platemark; surface loss top right.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Later impression on wove paper after engraved numbers excised.
State iii/iii; W36; D2
[Ref: 32780] £40.00 (£48.00 incl.VAT)

[Abraham offering up his son Isaac]
T Worlidge 1758
Etching, platemark 195 x 155mm (7¾ x 6"). Ink stains top left and right (possibly to cover up etched numbers 37 and 18); good impression and margins.
Abraham offering up his son Isaac, as recounted in the Hebrew Bible. God asked Abraham to sacrifice Isaac, before preventing him from doing so at the last minute, having received proof that he is god-fearing. Etching by Thomas Worlidge (1700-66), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married. Lifetime impression.
State i/iii; W36; D2
[Ref: 32777] £110.00 (£132.00 incl.VAT)

And Isaac said, Behold the Fire & the Wood: But where is the Lamb for a Burnt-offering?
WBaillie inv.t & sculp.t. 1765.
Etching. 175 x 125mm (6¾ x 8¾"), with margins. Chip in left margin.
Abraham preparing to sacrifice Isaac (Gen. XXII), standing, arms folded, in front of a log pyre, the knife lying on the ground beside him. Isaac holds a bundle of kindling and a torch.
[Ref: 54487] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

[Landscape with Abraham and Isaac]. A Sua Eccellenza Il Sig.re Guiseppe Maria De Gerando. Barone dell' Impero, Referendario, Segretario Genereale del Ministro dell' Interno, Membro del Instituto e della Legione d'onore. Pietro Parboni D. D. D.
Gasparo Pussino dipinse. Pietro Parboni incise. Nicola de Antoni impresse.
[Rome, n.d. c.1810-1815].
Engraving. 490 x 610mm (19¼ x 24"), with large margins. Crease in bottom left corner.
A pastoral landscape with four figures; in the right hand of the foreground Abraham and Isaac walk up the path carrying kindling. Beyond, in the centre, are two seated figures with a donkey. After 'Landscape with Abraham and Isaac' (1665) by Gaspard Dughet (1615-1675), a student of Poussin. Dughet's successful career as a landscape artist saw him become one of the best known painters in Rome, alonside Poussin and Claude Lorrain.
From the Berkeley Collection, Spetchley Park.
[Ref: 55089] £350.00

C.J. Abraham [facsimile signature].
George Richmond. Francis Holl. Printed by McQueen.
[n.d., 1853.]
Stipple on chine collé. 560 x 430mm (22 x 17"), with large margins. Some spotting of backing paper.
Charles John Abraham (1814-1903) was the first Anglican Bishop of Wellington, 1858. He was educated King's College, Cambridge, becoming a Fellow.
[Ref: 48494] £160.00 (£192.00 incl.VAT)

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